Railway-lantern



c. n. CRAIG.

RAILWAY LANTERN. TION FILED OCT. 19

' Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

UNITED STATS PTENT OFFICE.

CLAUDE R. CRAIG, OF WYMORE, NEBRASKA.

RAILWAY-LANTERN.

Specification'of Letters Patent.

Patented war. i, 1921.

Application filed October 19, 1920. Serial No. 417,993.

Railway-Lantern, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railroad lanterns, one of its objects being toprovide a lantern with means whereby fuses, torpedoes and matches may beheld in convenient positions .where they are protected and can be easilyreached for the purpose them when necessary.

A further object is to provide containers of this character which can becombined with a lamp of ordinary construction without making any changesin the lamp structure.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope ofwhat is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the inventionshown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention hasbeen shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a lamp having the presentimprovements combined therewith. r

Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates alantern of ordinary construction provided with the usual wire cage 2having a base ring 3 and an intermediate side ring 4. The attachmentsmaking up the present invention are adapted to be mounted on the basering 3 and to be soldered or otherwise secured to it. on this base ringat diametrically opposed points are fusee holders 5 arranged in pairsand each of which is in the form of an elongated cylindrical container,the containers of each pair being arranged side by side and securedtogether throughout their length.

of using- ,tion and can also Mounted These fusee holders or containersare not only secured to the base ring 3 but are also soldered orotherwise fastened to the intermediate ring Thus they are supported ininclined posltions so that the fusee can be easily placed in or takenfrom them. I

Torpedo boxes indicated at 6 are soldered I or otherwise secured on thebase ring 3 at diametrically opposed. points, the outer and inner wallsof these boxes being corrugated as shown so as to provide recesses toreceive the edge portions of the torpedoes and hold the articles inupstanding positions and out of contact with each other. Consequentlythe torpedoes can be easily placed in posibe readily removed because bythus spacing them the fingers can be inserted readily between thetorpedoes.

A match box in the form of a short cylindrical container can be solderedor otherwise secured to the base ring 3 and has a cap or closurethereon, the said box being-indicated at 7 and its closure at 8. Byproviding a lantern having the attachments herein described thenecessary signal devices as well as the matches can always be locatedreadily and are not likely to become misplaced or to he accidentallyleft on the car by-the trainmen.

It will be noted that while the parts 5 are primarily used as fuseeholders they also' posed corrugated walls for receiving the edgeportions of the spaced torpedoes.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my-own, I have hereto atlixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CLAUDE It. CRAIG.

Witnesses J. A. REULING, D. K. WINDLE.

ofa torpedo boXi secured upon the base ring and having op

